Women Money Power Summit Concludes: We Must Mentor and Be Mentored
April 10, 2011 by Laura Kacere · 2 Comments
The third day of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Women Money Power Summit in Washington, D.C., began with Ellie Smeal bearing the good news: The U.S. government would not shut down, and Title X funding was safe for now. She shouted at the general assembly, I think we should be very proud of the fact that the women’s community [...]
Women We’ll Be Reading 200 Years From Now
September 1, 2010 by Donna Decker · 8 Comments
“Women I admire have gone through hell to get their work out there,” Erica Jong told us this past weekend. “I’d like to change that for you.” Despite its sale of 20 million copies worldwide, Jong’s 1973 feminist novel Fear of Flying provoked a backlash, the vestiges of which still own a sliver of Jong’s [...]
Youth Survivors Host NY Anti-Trafficking Day
June 24, 2010 by Kate Noftsinger · 2 Comments
This Saturday, the Girls Educational Mentoring Service (GEMS) will host New York’s 5th annual End Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Day in Central Park. From 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., this event will celebrate the strength and leadership of youth survivors of domestic sex trafficking, while spreading awareness about the ongoing tragedy, which our nation has a [...]
